As I’m sure everyone knows, last Monday was the 225th anniversary of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Because this is probably the best excuse I will ever have, I’m using it to justify doing something I’ve wanted to do all my life — take an extended trip to Europe and see (or revisit) some of the places where he lived and worked.

So Arlin and I are leaving in early February to spend three weeks, mainly in Vienna, Prague, and Salzburg. We have plane tickets to Munich and a rail pass that will get us from city to city.

And we already have tickets to see Don Giovanni in Prague on February 14, in the theater where Mozart conducted the first performance in 1787: http://www.estatestheatre.cz/et_history.html